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When a scaling out is delayed or fails, it is crucial to ensure that clusters remain operational
and recoverable even under extreme conditions. To achieve this, the following proactive measures
are implemented:
- reject writes
- includes: inserts, updates, deletes, counter updates, hints, read+repair and lwt writes
- applicable to: user tables, views, CDC log, audit, cql tracing
- stop running compactions/repairs and prevent from starting new ones
- reject incoming tablet migrations
The aforementioned mechanisms are automatically enabled when node's disk utilization reaches
the critical level (default: 98%) and disabled when the utilization drop below the threshold.
Apart from that, the series add tests that require mounted volumes to simulate out of space.
The paths to the volumes can be provided using the a pytest argument, i.e. `--space-limited-dirs`.
When not provided, tests are skipped.
Test scenarios:
1. Start a cluster and write data until one of the nodes reaches 90% of the disk utilization
2. Perform an **operation** that would take the nodes over 100%
3. The nodes should not exceed the critical disk utilization (98% by default)
4. Scale out the cluster by adding one node per rack
5. Retry or wait for the **operation** from step 2
The **operation** is: writing data, running compactions, building materialized views, running repair,
migrating tablets (caused by RF change, decommission).
The test is successful, if no nodes run out of space, the **operation** from step 2 is
aborted/paused/timed out and the **operation** from step 5 is successful.
`perf-simple-query --smp 1 -m 1G` results obtained for fixed 400MHz frequency:
Read path (before)
```
instructions_per_op:
mean= 39661.51 standard-deviation=34.53
median= 39655.39 median-absolute-deviation=23.33
maximum=39708.71 minimum=39622.61
```
Read path (after)
```
instructions_per_op:
mean= 39691.68 standard-deviation=34.54
median= 39683.14 median-absolute-deviation=11.94
maximum=39749.32 minimum=39656.63
```
Write path (before):
```
instructions_per_op:
mean= 50942.86 standard-deviation=97.69
median= 50974.11 median-absolute-deviation=34.25
maximum=51019.23 minimum=50771.60
```
Write path (after):
```
instructions_per_op:
mean= 51000.15 standard-deviation=115.04
median= 51043.93 median-absolute-deviation=52.19
maximum=51065.81 minimum=50795.00
```
Fixes: https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/14067
Refs: https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/2871
No backport, as it is a new feature.
Closes scylladb/scylladb#23917
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
tests/cluster: Add new storage tests
test/scylla_cluster: Override workdir when passed via cmdline
streaming: Reject incoming migrations
storage_service: extend locator::load_stats to collect per-node critical disk utilization flag
repair_service: Add a facility to disable the service
compaction_manager: Subscribe to out of space controller
compaction_manager: Replace enabled/disabled states with running state
database: Add critical_disk_utilization mode database can be moved to
disk_space_monitor: add subscription API for threshold-based disk space monitoring
docs: Add feature documentation
config: Add critical_disk_utilization_level option
replica/exceptions: Add a new custom replica exception
Scylla
What is Scylla?
Scylla is the real-time big data database that is API-compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB. Scylla embraces a shared-nothing approach that increases throughput and storage capacity to realize order-of-magnitude performance improvements and reduce hardware costs.
For more information, please see the ScyllaDB web site.
Build Prerequisites
Scylla is fairly fussy about its build environment, requiring very recent versions of the C++23 compiler and of many libraries to build. The document HACKING.md includes detailed information on building and developing Scylla, but to get Scylla building quickly on (almost) any build machine, Scylla offers a frozen toolchain, This is a pre-configured Docker image which includes recent versions of all the required compilers, libraries and build tools. Using the frozen toolchain allows you to avoid changing anything in your build machine to meet Scylla's requirements - you just need to meet the frozen toolchain's prerequisites (mostly, Docker or Podman being available).
Building Scylla
Building Scylla with the frozen toolchain dbuild is as easy as:
$ git submodule update --init --force --recursive
$ ./tools/toolchain/dbuild ./configure.py
$ ./tools/toolchain/dbuild ninja build/release/scylla
For further information, please see:
- Developer documentation for more information on building Scylla.
- Build documentation on how to build Scylla binaries, tests, and packages.
- Docker image build documentation for information on how to build Docker images.
Running Scylla
To start Scylla server, run:
$ ./tools/toolchain/dbuild ./build/release/scylla --workdir tmp --smp 1 --developer-mode 1
This will start a Scylla node with one CPU core allocated to it and data files stored in the tmp directory.
The --developer-mode is needed to disable the various checks Scylla performs at startup to ensure the machine is configured for maximum performance (not relevant on development workstations).
Please note that you need to run Scylla with dbuild if you built it with the frozen toolchain.
For more run options, run:
$ ./tools/toolchain/dbuild ./build/release/scylla --help
Testing
See test.py manual.
Scylla APIs and compatibility
By default, Scylla is compatible with Apache Cassandra and its API - CQL. There is also support for the API of Amazon DynamoDB™, which needs to be enabled and configured in order to be used. For more information on how to enable the DynamoDB™ API in Scylla, and the current compatibility of this feature as well as Scylla-specific extensions, see Alternator and Getting started with Alternator.
Documentation
Documentation can be found here. Seastar documentation can be found here. User documentation can be found here.
Training
Training material and online courses can be found at Scylla University. The courses are free, self-paced and include hands-on examples. They cover a variety of topics including Scylla data modeling, administration, architecture, basic NoSQL concepts, using drivers for application development, Scylla setup, failover, compactions, multi-datacenters and how Scylla integrates with third-party applications.
Contributing to Scylla
If you want to report a bug or submit a pull request or a patch, please read the contribution guidelines.
If you are a developer working on Scylla, please read the developer guidelines.
Contact
- The community forum and Slack channel are for users to discuss configuration, management, and operations of ScyllaDB.
- The developers mailing list is for developers and people interested in following the development of ScyllaDB to discuss technical topics.